Love Anime?

So I've been a fan of anime since I was about 11. My love for it began with every ones favorite, Dragon Ball Z. I soon began renting every anime blockbuster had starting with Battle Angel Alita which is still by far one of my favorites..

As I grew older, various people began questioning why I still watched 'Cartoons'. The simple answer is that, while 'Anime' is short for Animation, Anime != Cartoon. At least not in the typical American sense of the word. Yes, they have some common ground: their both fantasy and they are both animated, but that is it. While it is true that a good amount of anime has been designed for children and preteens, the vast majority is aimed at teens 17+ and adults from 20-35 and up.

In fact, if you are a skeptic, watch the series 'DeathNote', then if you can still honestly tell me that you feel it's at a child's level, I will admit defeat...but it won't stop me from still loving it!

In my opinion, anime series are often based on much deeper ideas and concepts, have better story boards, better dialogue in most cases, etc than most of the live action tv shows I've ever seen. The beauty is, voice actors, artists and production all cost far less than the average live action tv show...but yet, often will profit in the hundreds of millions.

If you are totally clueless as to what anime even is, read the wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime

Anyway, here is a list of every anime series I've watched, all of which I definitely recommend!

• Full metal Alchemist
• Trigun
  
• Cobwboy Bebop
• FLCL
• Battle Angel
  
• Bleach
• Naruto
• Naruto Shippuden
• Soul Eater
• DeathNote
  
• Inuyasha
  
• Gurren Lagan
• Great Teacher Onizuka
• Yu Yu Hakisho
  
• Outlaw Star
• Witch Hunter Robin
  
• Hellsing
• .Hack//Legend of the Twilight
• .Hack//Liminality
• .Hack//Roots
• .Hack//Sign
• Samurai X
• Gundam Wing
• Tenchy Muyo
  
• Eureka Seven
• Afro Samurai
• XenoSaga
• Wolfs Rain
• Berserk
• Elfen Lied
• Dragon Ball
• Dragon Ball Z
• Dragon Ball GT
• Valkyrie Chronicles
• Ergo Proxy

I'm sure there are a few I've seen that I'm missing here. If you have any suggestions, please add them to the comments! Thanks -^_^-

Youtube favorites...

So did you know that you could 'favorite' videos on youtube? Of course you did. Strangely enough I always knew you could but I never bothered until just recently. So in honor of this, here is my youtube profile:

http://www.youtube.com/digitalp3nguin

Hope you enjoy my totally random collection ;)

Rand0m

Came accross this site a few minutes ago, thought it was kinda entertaining.
http://twistori.com/

I created a new playlist earlier, dedicated to my favorite Ska and Punk bands:
http://www.playlist.com/playlist/15587836171

Finally caught up with the rest of the world yesterday when I found out about #followfriday on twitter. Speaking of twitter, No they are not being taken over by google. Didn't your mother ever tell you not to trust everything the media tells you?!

Just in case you haven't already heard of it (which if you are a digg fan you probably definitely have) Digg released a new app called the 'diggbar' basically, it's just a bookmarlet which automatically popsup over the top any website your on if you click on it. It then allows you to easily digg and share the site with twitter and other social networks. Twitter links are auto shortened by Digg's new url shortening service fyi. Anyway, add the following to your bookmarks:
DiggBar

Well then, until next time!